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TopicPolitics containment topic 385: Omicrony Capitalism
masterplum
01/12/22 2:55:44 PM
#1
Speaking of Clinton....

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 384: Manchins of Madness
masterplum
01/12/22 12:49:34 PM
#488
Not_an_Owl posted...
And yet somehow it's better than what we had before. Granted it's nowhere near good enough.

There are definitely some things it changed that improved, but it somehow both reinforced the insurance system while simultaneously making an insurance system less possible by making it easier for healthy people to only get insurance when they needed it driving costs up.

I agree an insurance system doesn't work for health care, but it isn't even a good attempt at making one

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 384: Manchins of Madness
masterplum
01/12/22 8:09:03 AM
#486
Obama care is a garbage middle ground

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TopicTotally Spies shall make a comeback!
masterplum
01/11/22 9:02:33 PM
#12
Pirateking2000 posted...
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/365/286/7a0.png

The hell

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 384: Manchins of Madness
masterplum
01/11/22 7:08:48 AM
#479
Unsurprisingly, I totally agree. Im back to eating out twice a week. Were at the two year mark and vaccines show to massively decrease risk of death. Im not going to take precautions that are going to save unvaccinated lives from themselves, and Im not going to avoid doing things I want to do for something so low risk to vaccinated people.

I feel like the whole But spreading creates variants! Argument also just went out the window with Omnicron and how fast it ripped through countries with way higher vaccine rates than here


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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 384: Manchins of Madness
masterplum
01/10/22 10:42:04 PM
#472
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/covid-omicron-vaccination-rashomon/621199/

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TopicBaba is you beated
masterplum
01/10/22 7:45:39 AM
#7
firefdr posted...
total play time?

Around 35 hours per steam but some of that may have been just sitting there as I angrily went and did something. About right though

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TopicBaba is you beated
masterplum
01/09/22 9:51:20 PM
#1
This game was awesome. Still got to mop up some levels but got the real ending.

I think I cheated on something like 5 of the 170 levels or so almost entirely on being confused on LEVEL IS ______ Puzzles

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TopicWhich flavor of COVID did you first get?
masterplum
01/09/22 8:46:21 PM
#5
Aecioo posted...
Have not tested positive so far but given how quickly it went around my work where I work very closely to my employees, I'm guessing asyptomatic for Omicron.


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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 384: Manchins of Madness
masterplum
01/08/22 9:17:28 AM
#461
Insurance is a scam, but after working in healthcare Im convinced healthcare prices are a bigger issue.

we would set our billing cost obscenely high because we knew insurances would just lower the price they paid to their maximum paid amount and we didnt want to leave money on the table. Guess what happens when there is no insurance!

Like nobody thinks car insurance is that bad, mostly because the cost of fixing cars is extremely transparent and actually has competition

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 384: Manchins of Madness
masterplum
01/07/22 6:15:34 PM
#411
xp1337 posted...
SCOTUS looking like it's gearing up to kill the vaccinate-or-test OSHA requirement. Roberts suggesting OSHA cant do it because Congress didn't think about COVID when it passed the law 50 years ago.

https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1479495231087206406

guess we need to elect more time travelers for that needed future perspective

Or just have congress pass a law today to authorize it?

Being able to use old laws as gotchas during congressional deadlock is idiotic no matter who does it.

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TopicStock Topic 35
masterplum
01/04/22 4:46:21 PM
#26
Got in on Nancy Pelosis position and bought a couple Nvidia leaps

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TopicMy book finally got an angry review saying that it was 'too PC'.
masterplum
01/04/22 7:43:41 AM
#6
Evangelion gif

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 384: Manchins of Madness
masterplum
01/03/22 6:43:07 PM
#273
TotallyNotMI posted...
I mean

Forgiving student loans would have a huge impact on the economy, wouldn't it?

Not any moreso than what is currently happening

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TopicWhat is/are your least favorite game(s) you've beaten?
masterplum
01/03/22 5:19:31 PM
#68
Mac Arrowny posted...
For me, most of the games in this category either got worse over time (I liked Kentucky Route Zero's first two episodes) or were quite short (Mega Man 7 probably took me ~3 hours).

Or it's a part of my favorite series and I played the whole thing 30+ hours hoping it would get better. ;_;

This pretty much

Skyward sword had so much going for it but the issues that started small like pop-ups for every material resetting on game load got more and more annoying over time.

Skyward sword would have been phenomenal at 25 hours, but the padding made me hate it over time

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TopicWhat is/are your least favorite game(s) you've beaten?
masterplum
01/02/22 9:40:04 PM
#47
Skyward Sword

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TopicWhat games you've bought more or less on faith turned out to be great?
masterplum
01/01/22 3:43:08 PM
#16
Preordered Persona 3

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TopicI am playing Three Houses. Edelgard route. Got to chapter 12.
masterplum
01/01/22 1:06:12 PM
#27
Edelgard not being in smash is a travesty

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TopicHappy Holidays. First 15 people in this topic get Omori or Inscryption as a gift
masterplum
01/01/22 8:55:09 AM
#110
There is indeed a sad lack of omori updates in this topic

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TopicWhich of these indie games am I missing out on most?
masterplum
01/01/22 8:52:37 AM
#72
Picked up Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Whoa there is too much going on here. I think the game would be better without equipment and side quests and half these magic attacks

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TopicSo what will be the first Video Game you play on the New Year?
masterplum
12/31/21 8:49:44 AM
#23
Probably story book brawl.

possible bloodstained or baba is you

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 384: Manchins of Madness
masterplum
12/30/21 11:56:29 AM
#180
Wanglicious posted...
easiest compromise would be you aren't forced to stay indoors all day but you still get the free money and groceries. but i mean, you're reading chinese propaganda. they lie about everything and spin everything.

Doesn't that defeat the entire point of a forced quarantine?

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 384: Manchins of Madness
masterplum
12/30/21 11:41:35 AM
#176
ChaosTonyV4 posted...
Covid would have been over in 2 weeks if we did forced quarantine and the military delivering food/supplies.

The issue is you can use this logic for any societal ill.

Immigration wouldn't be an issue if we had the military patrolling the border
Drugs wouldn't be an issue if we had the military patrolling the streets

The whole point of the 4th amendment was we didn't like the military just chilling out with us all of the time.

Not to mention the whole issue of shutting down all of society for 2 weeks is kind of problematic if you still want food supply chains to work

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TopicStock Topic 35
masterplum
12/30/21 11:36:13 AM
#6
Not sure if I am built for this aggressive positions life.

My last 4 days have been up 7% down 4% down 4% up 8%

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TopicStock Topic 35
masterplum
12/30/21 10:25:35 AM
#2
Small caps have been wildly swingy. Been buying on low days and selling on high days

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 384: Manchins of Madness
masterplum
12/30/21 10:22:47 AM
#172
HeroDelTiempo17 posted...
What do you mean yikes? Here in the US we just hit our all time high case spike. I fucking wish we'd lock back down and get free money and groceries from the government.

I'm good not being policed into staying at my house all day

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 384: Manchins of Madness
masterplum
12/30/21 9:18:12 AM
#169
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/30/1069033446/officials-promise-groceries-for-xian-china-city-of-13-million-under-lockdown

Yikes

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TopicOuter Wilds is giving me motion sickness.
masterplum
12/30/21 8:26:13 AM
#8
Third person talos didn't help. It was still way too jerky

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TopicHappy Holidays. First 15 people in this topic get Omori or Inscryption as a gift
masterplum
12/30/21 7:40:59 AM
#106
I should point out if you end up not liking a game you shouldnt feel bad about no longer playing it. I basically gave that rule to set the expectation that I didnt want the game to just be thrown in someones steam account to rot for eternity.


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TopicOuter Wilds is giving me motion sickness.
masterplum
12/30/21 7:38:52 AM
#5
Only game that really did it for me was talos project.

Not really sure why that game was so disorienting

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TopicWhat are some games with midgame New Game + options?
masterplum
12/29/21 5:26:03 PM
#5
hombad46 posted...
Isn't Hades like that? Anyway I believe the genre is called Roguelite

Roguelites with permanent upgrades. Many don't really give upgrades.

Returnal is the first game I thought of

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TopicGames with Gold and PlayStation Plus for January 2022
masterplum
12/29/21 2:10:53 PM
#6
Hey cool I'll finally play strikers

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TopicBest Day of the Week Day 3
masterplum
12/29/21 8:20:55 AM
#11
pepper2012 posted...
Who the hell is voting for Monday

If you really love your job I could see it. Qt least it has that going for it over Tuesday or Wednesday nobody likes

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TopicStock Topic 34
masterplum
12/29/21 8:19:09 AM
#481
greengravy294 posted...
Wish is down 90% give that a shot

Wish is garbage.

red sox 777 posted...
Starting to get interested in HOOD stock. Down about 75% from the peak.

This one is interesting. My biggest concern is if the congressional hearings will spook the stock price

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TopicBest Day of the Week Day 3
masterplum
12/28/21 8:22:13 PM
#5
Its friday and it isn't close

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TopicHello! Hello!
masterplum
12/28/21 7:10:49 PM
#4
It has, so many awesome parts

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TopicSo, thinking of getting a divorce.
masterplum
12/28/21 1:52:55 PM
#10
I've been divorced. It really colored my expectations of what marriage should be. I think my first marriage was the happy bubbly kind and my second resembles closer to a crusader kings 3 marriage than a modern day one. Hell, we aren't even legally married because it would cost 3 grand a year in taxes and we agree the government acknowledging to our marriage isn't worth 3 grand a year. We do have a contract however.

The point is, if you are leaving your marriage because it isn't fun any more you will never be happy because the sparks always leave after a couple years. If you are leaving because your spouse is stopping you from fulfilling your life goals that could be a valid reason, but I would try to talk that through first

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 384: Manchins of Madness
masterplum
12/28/21 11:14:28 AM
#129
Reg posted...
Would Eastern Oregon as its own state not immediately be basically the "worst" state in the country by pretty much any metric (economic, health, education, etc)?

Is there a substantial difference between it and idaho?

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TopicGame of the Year 2021 Results Reveal!
masterplum
12/28/21 10:19:41 AM
#82
MoogleKupo141 posted...
yeah, I like Undetale enough that Ill probably check out Deltarune when its all out, but not enough that I feel compelled to play each episode right away

This

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 384: Manchins of Madness
masterplum
12/28/21 9:43:43 AM
#126
Dancedreamer posted...
Yet, you're complaining about Oregon, and not the other Republican gerrymandered states

... Because everyone here already thinks thats terrible? Do you want me to start every post with Donald Trump is bad too?

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 384: Manchins of Madness
masterplum
12/28/21 9:39:22 AM
#124
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/12/oregon-secession-idaho-move-border/621087/

I don't hate it?

It obviously would need to be done in conjunction with some other reforms such as DC statehood but Oregons 2020 census map is as insanely gerrymandered as anything you can find in Republican states. I think this is a fairly reasonable grievance.

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TopicNew Super Eyepatch Wolf 4 days ago (Garfield)
masterplum
12/28/21 9:04:55 AM
#17
Well that was disturbing

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TopicSpider-Man topic (spoilers, none in first post)
masterplum
12/28/21 9:00:16 AM
#126
HanOfTheNekos posted...
What do people think about where Peter is at the end of the movie?

I was thinking about what defines this Peter from the previous ones, and the easy answer was his relationships. Tony and Ned, primarily, though Happy and May were big too. Even Strange had an avenue to replace Tony, given the twos adventures in Infinity War and this movie.

But now he has nothing. Not even a cool suit.. So what defines him anymore?

I think that's important to tackle if there is a next movie honestly. I'm cool with that being open ended here

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 384: Manchins of Madness
masterplum
12/28/21 8:43:21 AM
#122
DeepsPraw posted...
damn just interacting with youtube on any level is enough to get you cancelled now huh?

Reminds me of the bots that ban you from left wing subs on reddit if you ever post in conservative subs regardless of what you say

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TopicNew Super Eyepatch Wolf 4 days ago (Garfield)
masterplum
12/28/21 8:20:34 AM
#15
Maniac64 posted...
Clearly I need to watch more of his videos

Yes

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TopicNew Super Eyepatch Wolf 4 days ago (Garfield)
masterplum
12/28/21 8:06:36 AM
#13
GTM posted...
i showed my gf the dell one and she thought it was hilarious and sad and hilarious

The dell one is incredible.

Wrestling is still probably my favorite

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TopicStock Topic 34
masterplum
12/27/21 12:50:35 PM
#476
dumped my bbig. Should have dumped all of it instead of a third at 3.50 Oh well

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TopicWhat is your favorite Superhero movie of all time?
masterplum
12/27/21 10:48:03 AM
#4
The dark knight and Spiderman homecoming

Their radically different enough to be tied

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TopicHelp me to decide which major PS4 game to play first!
masterplum
12/26/21 12:52:56 PM
#15
hombad46 posted...
If you're level 99 by that point you must've done a lot of grinding

I meant from a persona standpoint, though I'm trying to keep it intentionally vague given he hasn't played either game

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TopicHelp me to decide which major PS4 game to play first!
masterplum
12/26/21 12:46:30 PM
#13
HanOfTheNekos posted...
What does Royal add?

The biggest thing is an additional 20 hour chapter after the main game, but it is extremely obvious where that is so the game feels complete then just.... keeps going. From an RPG perspective I think this is the worst offender because their isn't any rebalancing so you easily can be pretty much maxed out at that point because you got yourself ready for the final boss of the original game which makes the extra content not a fun game to play any more. That was really my biggest issue.

Additionally it adds in other random scenes and content which range from mildly detracting to fine, but in a 100 hour game where its already a bit too bloated I didn't think that improved the experience.

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